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Affirm boasts that it can boost the average order value (AOV) customers spend when they’re shopping at your store by giving them a way to purchase your products with credit, but at a (potentially) lower cost than they would with a credit card.

Gorgias is one of the most popular helpdesks for D2C brands. It centralizes all your support tickets in one place and enriches them with lots of extra context about a buyer's profile. Through Gorgias, you can connect directly to your eCommerce store and edit orders, modify subscriptions, and refund payments without leaving your helpdesk.

PostPilot is THE direct mail platform for digitally native brands. Think Klaviyo or Meta for direct mail. PostPilot's full funnel solution helps you increase retention & LTV, convert more site visitors into customers, and hyper-target cold prospects by leveraging their industry-leading data and groundbreaking AI targeting. PostPilot makes it fast & easy with native ecom integrations, done-for-you strategy, setup, creative & optimization, plus real-time ROI dashboards. Cut through the digital clutter and beat rising ad costs. 1-800-D2C members receive 15% off their first 3 months of PostPilot! Your mail could be in your customer’s hands by next week.

AfterShip keeps your customers updated of the whereabouts of their orders until delivery through an intuitive, customized tracking page and automated notifications. Build your own tracking page to include product marketing banners and Instagram images to impress, engage and upsell your customers.

Retention.com integrates with the world’s leading marketing automation platforms to optimize list growth, reclaim abandonment cart revenue, and re-engage lapsed audiences through industry leading data integration systems. Maximize untapped revenue for your e-commerce store with a platform that’s built to increase customer retention and abandonment revenue.

Northbeam is a universal attribution platform for media buyers, business executives, and marketing agencies that want to know exactly how their ad spend is performing – and how to improve it. We combine sophisticated data cleansing and stitching with proprietary ML models to create hourly, channel-agnostic reports so you can scale with confidence.

Klaviyo is the best in class email marketing solution for eCommerce. It's powerful because it connects to your store, and you can create awesome customer segments based on past purchasing behaviors, customer preferences, and even future predictions of spending.

Snowplow Insights is the best way to capture and process high-quality behavioral data from all your platforms and products and deliver that data to your cloud destination of choice.

Elevar is a dynamic data and tracking tool available that facilitates the seamless expansion of Shopify/Shopify Plus brands through server-side tracking capabilities. By providing D2C brands with an optimal method to gather maximum accurate 1st party data and transmit this data back to marketing channels, Elevar enables marketing platforms to operate more effectively, resulting in reduced customer acquisition costs and increased return on ad spend.

Octane AI is a suite of tool for Shopify brands to increase revenue through engaging quizzes and learn more about their customers through AI-driven research. Octane helps D2C brands create quizzes that recommend products, collect zero party data, grow subscriber lists and drive ROI. Their Voice of Customer tool, Insights AI, allows D2C brands to upload their reviews and enable Octane’s AI to uncover insights, sentiments, research and more into their customers.

Okendo is the customer marketing platform trusted by 17,000+ brands, including SKIMS, Rhode, and Oh Polly. With Reviews, Loyalty, Referrals, Quizzes, and Surveys all in one place, Okendo helps brands turn shoppers into Superfans by showcasing customer feedback, rewarding engagement, and collecting insights that fuel personalized marketing and long-term growth.

Often paired with the React framework Next.js - Vercel is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to our global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.

Next.js is an open-source React based JavaScript framework created by Vercel. Next.js boasts many features that align with the specs required for eCommerce projects, including; Live collaboration tooling, image optimization for seamless product discovery, built-in internationalization, and built-in analytics.

Hotjar is a behavior analytics and user feedback service that helps you understand the behavior of your website users and get their feedback through tools such as heatmaps, session recordings, and surveys.

Afterpay is a ‘buy-now-pay-later’ platform that allows customers to pay for their purchases over four, fortnightly instalments. Retailers that offer Afterpay get paid immediately, but are charged a merchant fee of 4.17%. It’s like a modern-day credit card with an interest-free period.

Rebuy is the ultimate personalization platform for Shopify brands. Rebuy provides AI-powered tools to enhance customer experiences through personalized product recommendations, smart search functions, dynamic bundling, and automated marketing strategies like upselling and cross-selling. Rebuy's suite of fully-integrated tools increases revenue, average order value, and customer retention for D2C brands.

Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to set up an online store and sell their products. It's the go-to eCommerce platform for young direct-to-consumer brands. Its ease of use and setup is what's most attractive to merchants, but also the incredibly vast Shopify app store.

Lifetimely is a robust analytics tool designed for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands using Shopify. It provides detailed insights into customer lifetime value (LTV), profit and loss tracking, and predictive analytics. The platform allows businesses to integrate various data sources, customize dashboards, and benchmark performance against industry standards. With Lifetimely, brands can make data-driven decisions to enhance profitability and customer retention.

Shoplift is Shopify's first fully integrated conversion optimization platform. Convert browsers into buyers with A/B testing and personalization beyond your wildest theme.